Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border media representation and public response
Title:
Gender violence at the U.S.-Mexico border media representation and public response
Author:
Domínguez Ruvalcaba, Héctor, 1962-
Publication Information:
Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2010.
Physical Description:
[vii], 200 p.
Contents:
Gender violence : an introduction / Violence and transvestite/transgender sex workers in Tijuana / We never thought it would happen to us : approaches to the study of the subjectivities of the mothers of the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez / Death on the screen : imagining violence in border media / Representations of femicide in border cinema / Women in the global machine : Patrick Bard's La frontera, Carmen Galán Benitez's Tierra marchita, and Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert blood : the Juárez murders / ¡Alto a la impunidad! Is there legal relief for the murders of women in Ciudad Juárez?
